Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Argues Edwardian novelists describe houses, not people; 'on or about December 1910, human character changed'; calls for new literary forms
Argues Edwardian novelists describe houses, not people; 'on or about December 1910, human character changed'; calls for new literary forms
Published 1924 (public domain). Woolf declares war on a generation of novelists. The date she picks (1910) is deliberately provocative and brilliant.
Key themes: Literary revolution, character, Edwardian vs. Georgian, modernism, human nature